Virtual Clinical Excursions 2. 0 to Accompany Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing

Book excerpt: Virtual Clinical Excursions is a workbook/CD-ROM package that guides you through a multi-floor virtual hospital to provide you with a hands-on learning experience. You'll meet a series of pediatric patients at Canyon View Regional Medical Center. Each patient has their own diverse health problems, medical histories, families, cultural backgrounds, and personalities. Via the workbook exercises, you'll actively interact with and assess these patients ... access and review their charts, lab data, and medication administration records ... monitor daily changes when their nurses take their vital signs and perform a variety of tests ... formulate nursing diagnoses ... and plan interventions. Essentially, you can practice making all of the key clinical nursing decisions ... on your own schedule and at your convenience. The enclosed CD-ROM package gives you access to the virtual hospital. The workbook guides you through the Well-Child Clinic and the Pediatric Floor. You'll learn communication, documentation, assessment, critical thinking, and other essential skills. You'll also be called on to collect information, make decisions, and set priorities. Each lesson has a reading assignment from Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, as well as activities that call on you to "visit" the pediatric patients in Canyon View Regional Medical Center. The workbook exercises provide a perfect environment in which you can practice what you are learning from the textbook. The result is a uniquely hands-on way to master essential nursing knowledge.